Comments on: Twisted pair

Twisted pair

Eideteker — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:05:34 -0800

Ctrl-shift-t collision in Firefox.

If I hit ctrl-shift-T to unclose a tab in Firefox while I'm on a MeFi page, it transports me to the text-box. Now I've completely lost my place wherever I was reading, and I have some extraneous <em> tags. Similarly, if I go to italicize my text using the keyboard shortcut, I end up opening the last tab I closed. Since more folks use Firefox than MeFi, is it possible to change MeFi's behavior?

By: Grither

Grither — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:08:47 -0800

Holy crap, ctrl-shift-t is the coolest thing ever! Thanks MetaTalk!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:11:02 -0800

Yeah, it was control-shift-t back in 2001 or so and worked great for keyboard short cuts on a PC before the invention of browser tabs.

What does control-shift-i do on a PC version of firefox while you are in a mefi browser window? I seem to recall we never used the more obvious key combo because there was a clash there.

By: booticon

booticon — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:19:53 -0800

Ctrl-Shift-I appears to do nothing in PC Firefox.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:21:13 -0800

booticon, it actually activates the goggles.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:22:07 -0800

What does control-shift-i do on a PC version of firefox while you are in a mefi browser window?

Slight tingling sensation. 3.0.1, XP SP2

Other fun MeFi shortcuts: ',' and '.' will take you up and down the front pages and individual threads by post and comment, respectively

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:24:41 -0800

<nothingtoseehere>It sends a copy of your browser history and all your cookies* to the Trilateral Commission.

*Except pecan sandies. The Trilateral Commission hates pecan sandies.I know this because my grandmother was a pecan sandie before they had her killed in '57.
</nothingtoseehere>

Uh, ahem. Ctrl-Shift-I does nothing in my copy of Firefox 3.

By: squeak

squeak — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:37:16 -0800

What does control-shift-i do on a PC version of firefox

Opens up the DOM Inspector in Firefox 2.x.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:00:29 -0800

Ah! I only have the SUB inspector installed.

By: waraw

waraw — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:38:42 -0800

[flips the SWITCH]

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:39:03 -0800

THERE IS NO COBOL. STOP RUN.

By: yeti

yeti — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:59:30 -0800

CTRL-SHIFT-W!

Which reminds me back in the 90s when I first got on the internet and the only place I could think to hang out were Star Wars chat rooms. AOL had one I think. In addition to the usual lame a/s/l chatter, occasionally we'd get visits from Star Trek fans. Once I went "If you like Star Trek press NCC-1701!!!" and a few people would. Losers. And then I'd type "If you like Star Trek press CTRL ALT DELETE repetedly!!!!" And it would work. Hilarious times, 1996.

Thing is, I liked Star Trek too. I just couldn't think of anything better to do.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:23:08 -0800

CTRL-SHIFT-W!
...
Aw dammit!

By: booticon

booticon — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:26:53 -0800

yeti said: "CTRL-SHIFT-W!"

You are such a fucking asshole.

By: xod

xod — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:55:52 -0800

Crtl-shft-^ and all of a sudden I'm sitting here in a blue dress, holding a stick of butter and wearing some kind of silent-cone-shaped-headpiece.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:10:08 -0800

CTRL-SHIFT-W!

Did somebody just have me paged?

No, wait, that's ALT-CTRL-W.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:22:16 -0800

Hold Alt-F4 to activate cheat mode.

By: majick

majick — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:16:25 -0800

A long long time ago, I used to run a dialup BBS. Actually sort of a series of them. At one point I took the [Hit Any Key] prompt that paused between display pages and set it to "Hit CTRL_ALT_DEL to Continue..."

I guarantee that about one in every four people who dialed my little BBS computer suddenly got disconnected the first time that prompt came up.

By: DreamerFi

DreamerFi — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:43:47 -0800

If you like Star Trek press CTRL ALT DELETE repetedly

And just about every "look at this cool voice-control software for your computer" presentation had somebody in the audience going "Format C, yes!"

*sigh*